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11:45 AM ET, March 10, 2019

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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
A mysterious payment to Paul Manafort's lawyer reveals a hidden chapter of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign  — Recent court filings are shedding new light on a mysterious $125,000 payment to lawyers for Paul Manafort, paid by a firm that has not been identified until now.
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Not even in the race, Joe Biden leads herd of Democrats; Bernie Sanders close behind  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders lead the pack among likely Iowa caucusgoers, according to a new Iowa Poll in March 2019.  Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker also chart.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
‘A major player’: Sanders gets props from the Democratic establishment
CNN:   Iowa Poll: Biden and Sanders stand out among likely caucusgoers
Natasha Korecki / Politico:   Iowa poll: It's Biden vs. Bernie
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders-Style Politics Are Defining 2020 Race, Unnerving Moderates
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Salon and Mother Jones
Associated Press:
Town by town, local journalism is dying in plain sight  —  WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer.  He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a digital recorder.
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
A Tight and Tangled ‘Collusion’ Web  —  Most people reading this will know Sir Walter Scott's famous couplet (from the narrative poem Marmion): … Less well known, but undeservedly so, is the excellent completing couplet by J. R. Pope, published under the sly title “A Word of Encouragement”:
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Quinta Jurecic / New York Times:   Will There Be Smoking Guns in the Mueller Report?
Cockburn / Spectator USA:   Mueller vs Barr, and the battle to indict Trump
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:   Paul Manafort Was an Agent of Ukraine, Not Russia
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Real Horror of the Anti-Vaxxers  —  This isn't just a public health crisis.  It's a public sanity one.  —  How many studies do you have to throw at the vaccine hysterics before they quit?  How much of a scientific consensus, how many unimpeachable experts and how exquisitely rational an argument must you present?
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Young Americans are embracing socialism  —  Generation Z has a more positive view of the word “socialism” than previous generations, and — along with Millennials — are more likely to embrace socialistic policies and principles than past generations, according to a new Harris Poll given exclusively to Axios.
Discussion: Political Wire
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump  —  Real and reasonable arguments among congressional Democrats—and, indeed, among the public—range from the practical to the procedural.  —  The announcement last week that Representative Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Susan Warren / Bloomberg:
Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Capitalism as an ‘Irredeemable’ System  — First-term Democrat says people and environment paying price  — New York representative appeared on South by Southwest stage  —  Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose sudden rise to prominence has made her a target …
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New York Post:
Company founded by Ocasio-Cortez in 2012 still owes $1,870 in taxes
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
It Exists: DOJ Finds Letter Ordering Scrutiny of Uranium One, Hillary Clinton  —  Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote the letter on Nov. 22, 2017 for Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber.  Read it here.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  After it claimed no such document existed …
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Clark Pettig / American Oversight:   Sessions Letter Shows DOJ Acted on Trump's Authoritarian Demand to Investigate Clinton
Andrew Kugle / Washington Free Beacon:
Castro Hits Sanders: He Wants to Write a ‘Big Check’ for Everything But Reparations  —  Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro criticized his fellow opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) during a Sunday interview on CNN's State of the Union.  —  Castro was asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper …
Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:
How Not to Lose to Donald Trump  —  Few could have predicted President Trump would be this good at surrendering the political advantage of a strong economy.  Not only is he now underwater in the three states that pushed him to victory in 2016—he's now unexpectedly vulnerable in places like Texas, Florida, and Ohio as well.
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Trump's legacy: conservative judges who will dominate US law for decades  —  Republicans have confirmed 89 Trump-nominated judges, far in excess of appointments under Obama and Bush  —  Many Americans watching the turmoil in US institutions and political norms are yearning for the day when Donald Trump is no longer president.
New York Times:
Ethiopian Airlines Flight Crashes Near Addis Ababa, Killing at Least 150  —  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying at least 150 people crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline said, killing everyone onboard.
Discussion: Associated Press, Splinter and Slate
miamiherald:
Massage parlor magnate helped steer Chinese to Trump NYC fundraiser, attendee says  —  A Chinese-American massage-parlor entrepreneur arranged for a group of Chinese business executives to attend a paid fundraiser for President Donald Trump in New York City at the end of 2017, according to a source who was present at the event.
New York Times:
Will Trump Trade the Future for a Hill of Beans?  —  The outlines of a potential trade deal with China suggest President Trump once again is prioritizing superficial gains over America's long-term economic interests.  —  It's easy to sell soybeans to China.  The Chinese are voracious consumers of the world's raw materials.
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
U.S. Continues to Separate Migrant Families Despite Rollback of Policy  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — Nearly nine months after the Trump administration officially rescinded its policy of separating migrant families who have illegally crossed the border, more than 200 migrant children have been taken …
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NBC News:
Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising, data shows
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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Noah Berlatsky / CNN:
Let 16-year-olds vote  —  See children confront Feinstein over Green New Deal
John Avlon / CNN:
A look back at Clinton's impeachment reveals the GOP's searing hypocrisy
ABC News:
Presidential hopefuls make appearances at South by Southwest Festival
Discussion: Washington Post
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
As residents flee New York's high taxes, state uses intrusive audits to get cash from defectors
Discussion: Front Page Magazine, Breitbart and CNBC
CREW:
Presidential Profiteering: Trump's Conflicts Got Worse in Year Two
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What you do and don't do when one party loses its mind and the other might, too
 Earlier Items: 
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Springing forward to daylight saving time is obsolete, confusing and unhealthy, critics say
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Aristocracy of Victimhood
Washington Post:
Trump invokes new demand for extracting billions of dollars from U.S. allies
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Arrests in domestic terror probes outpace those inspired by Islamic extremists
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA